DavidE
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Heart Attack Survival A Cut and Paste
I am going to take a chance and post this in the most read forum and then if the estimado administator believes it should be moved elsewhere then so
be it. IMHO the information in this piece is SO important that everyone should read it. Maybe YOU won't suffer a heart attack but someone near you
will. Simply ordering them what-to-do may help prevent a fatality.
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What are you to do if you have a heart attack
while you are alone.
If you've already received this,
it means people care about you.
The Johnson City Medical Center staff actually
discovered this and did an in-depth study
on it in our ICU.
The two individuals that discovered this then did an article on it, had it published and have had it incorporated into ACLS and CPR classes.
It is very true and has and does work.
It is called cough CPR.
A cardiologist says it's the truth
If everyone who gets this sends it to 10 people,
you can bet that we'll save at least one life.
It could save your life!
Let's say it's 6:15 p.m. and you're driving home
(alone of course), after an usually hard day on the job.
You're really tired, upset and frustrated.
Suddenly you start experiencing severe pain
in your chest that starts to radiate out
into your arm and up into your jaw.
You are only about five miles from the hospital
nearest your home.
Unfortunately you don't know if you'll be
able to make it that far.
What can you do?
You've been trained in CPR
but the guy that taught the course didn't tell
you what to do if it happened to yourself.
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Since many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, this article seemed to be in order.
Without help, the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint,
has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness.
However, these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.
A deep breath should be taken before each
cough, and the cough must be deep
and prolonged, as when producing sputum
from deep inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated
about every two seconds without let up
util help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and
kep the blood circulating.
The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital.
Tell as many other people as possible about this, it could save their lives!
From Health Cares, Rochester General Hospital via Chapter 240s newsletter
'AND THE BEAT GOES ON '
(reprint from The Mended Hearts, Inc. Publication, Heart Response)
BE A FRIEND AND PLEASE SEND
THIS ARTICLE
TO AS MANY FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE
A Lot To See And A Lot To Do
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TMW
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Thanks
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Mil Gracias, David!
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Self CPR very interesting...also what about taking an aspirin at the first sign of chest pain!!!
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elizabeth
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This email has been going around for some time. The cough CPR could just as easily kill you depending upon the kind of heart attack. Best to chew a
325 mg aspirin. See Snopes about this recurring email.
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EnsenadaDr
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Thanks Elizabeth can you link the source of danger of cough CPR? Thanks for your input. | Quote: | Originally posted by elizabeth
This email has been going around for some time. The cough CPR could just as easily kill you depending upon the kind of heart attack. Best to chew a
325 mg aspirin. See Snopes about this recurring email. |
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willardguy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by elizabeth
This email has been going around for some time. The cough CPR could just as easily kill you depending upon the kind of heart attack. Best to chew a
325 mg aspirin. See Snopes about this recurring email. |
good stuff elizabeth!
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Rochester General says they have no connection to this information:
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Hundreds of people around the country have received an e-mail message entitled “How to Survive a Heart Attack When Alone.” This article recommends a
procedure to survive a heart attack in which the victim is advised to repeatedly cough at regular intervals until help arrives.
The source of information for this article was attributed to Rochester General Hospital. This article is being propagated on the Internet as
individuals send it to friends and acquaintances – and then those recipients of the memo send it to their friends and acquaintances, and so on.
We can find no record that an article even resembling this was produced by Rochester General Hospital within the last 20 years. Furthermore, the
medical information listed in the article can not be verified by current medical literature and is in no way condoned by this hospital’s medical
staff. Also, both The Mended Hearts, Inc., a support organization for heart patients, and the American Heart Association have said that this
information should not be forwarded or used by anyone.
http://www.rochestergeneral.org/centers-and-services/sands-c...
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It's felt that the information in this email that's been going around for some time is potentially harmful:
http://www.snopes.com/medical/homecure/coughcpr.asp
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